If taking about the animal, yes, it could mean mountain lion. If taking about a woman, it means a lady who romantically gets together with much younger men

@elultimo102

2 жыл бұрын

Where were they when I was 21? (By now, they would all be dead).

@violatethemagistrate

2 жыл бұрын

I've found 'cougar' as the cat, to be used in the midwest-Ozarks area. We always call it mountain lion in CenCal.

@tarquincummerbund6997

2 жыл бұрын

Cougar = mountain lion = puma

@lairdcummings9092

2 жыл бұрын

Californian native who lived in Colorado for a long time; cougar is a large wild cat (Colorado). Also an older woman with a taste for young men (East *and* West Coast).

@a.b.c.6717

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, he completely missed the mark on this one!

"Gnarly" does not mean "good", it means "intense". Bad things can be "gnarly", as in, "Dude, that wipeout was gnarly!"

@paulsander5433

2 жыл бұрын

Gnarly can also mean "difficult" or "dangerous" but conquerable. Originating with surfer culture, those things also equate to "great" and "intense".

@wilphred

2 жыл бұрын

I 100% agree. It is a word that still is in my vocabulary.

@danielwendlick784

2 жыл бұрын

but it can apply as in "took a good fall" and took a bad fall" mean pretty much the same thing, though "good" and "bad" are opposites.

@alastairdallas

2 жыл бұрын

It also means "complex"--as in Middle East politics can be gnarly.

@davidstocker2278

2 жыл бұрын

Gnarly is used to describe a kind of wound. A compound fracture is gnarly, a bruise is not. A wipeout being gnarly means it injured you significantly. Using gnarly instead of intense to describe a wipeout that didn't injure you drives me the same crazy that people who use literally incorrectly

Considering how Laurence approached the cougar question, I think he is familiar with the slang, and was legitimately unfamiliar with the actual animal. It's a mountain lion to me.

@reneed.1648

Жыл бұрын

We call them Mountain Lions in California. Cougar is more of a Rocky Mountains thing.

@ApocalypseSoldiers

10 ай бұрын

@@reneed.1648I live in Colorado and no one uses cougar. They are mountain lions.

@Ellen-ru2fr

4 ай бұрын

Whatever one wants to call them, remaining unfamiliar with them is optimal, at least on an up-close-and-personal while out hiking, jogging, or bicycling basis...

I grew up with the word "duff" to mean one's rear end. To use it in a sentence, I'd say, "Get up off your duff and start helping!" Cougar certainly means a big cat native to North America, but the slang version, which is what I thought you were going for in this video, is a woman who has reached middle age who dates younger men.

@chrisnemec5644

2 жыл бұрын

I heard this too, although it tends to imply that one is being lazy.

@BoomerTex

2 жыл бұрын

I've heard it used that way too all my life, but I think in this case (California) it would be like the movie The Duff where Duff means Designated Ugly Fat Friend - DUFF.

@Beethovenfan12

2 жыл бұрын

@@BoomerTex, you''re probably right about that. I never saw the movie, but I saw it listed on Netflix, and I wondered. Makes sense.

@pedrolopez8057

2 жыл бұрын

It's a pretty common forestry word.

@GizmoFromPizmo

2 жыл бұрын

Right. Duff means "prat". My mom used to talk about certain comic actors (Jerry Lewis, or whoever) who would do prat falls (meaning they fell on their butts). And duff does indeed mean butt. The butt has a lot of synonyms.

I thought “Cougar” was definitely going to be woman who goes after much younger men. Now I want to know the origin story behind this meaning.

@CaptainHightop

2 жыл бұрын

Cougar as term for older women going after younger men comes from being on the prowl for prey like the cat cougar.

@andrewthezeppo

2 жыл бұрын

Being from L,A, that is most definitely the meaning we call the cats mountain lions.

@devorahacts

2 жыл бұрын

@@CaptainHightop No, it comes from the notion that her body is hot and her face is scary. It's an insult. I wouldn't repeat it to women unless they bring it up in a positive way.

@davesunhammer4218

2 жыл бұрын

Again, with reference to the cat name and not the woman slang, cougar comes from French. Makes total sense that it would spread down from French Canadian trappers into Washington, then Oregon, which had a long "trapper" history.

@stuartsutherland2840

2 жыл бұрын

@@devorahacts That is not a cougar. That's butterface. I have never heard anyone use it that way.

"Dank" has an interesting turnaround of meanings. Originally dark, then dark, damp and mildewy, as in "The dank smell of the disused cellar". From there to anything strongly and not particularly pleasantly odoriferous, which was then assigned to a high grade of a vegetable substance not normally eaten in salads. from there it took the meaning of a high grade of anything, and then just generally good.

@luelladiaz109

2 жыл бұрын

I have only heard the word dank for the dark damp smelly area. Never heard it to mean anything good. Northern Californian here.

@RoxieMarquez_marroxeli

2 жыл бұрын

@@luelladiaz109 I think because when your herbs are really good, you can smell the moisture on it, meaning high quality. So "dank memes" can by association mean "high quality" memes because high moisture=high quality.

@antilogism

Жыл бұрын

@@luelladiaz109 So. Cal. for 44 years---same but then I haven't been around pot since high school.

@Kamdrimar

Жыл бұрын

@@antilogism Yeah, guess you missed it. I'm only a few years younger than you and we (along with people older than us) used "dank" to refer to high-quality botanical arrangements in SoCal back when I was a kid.

@TheKjoy85

Жыл бұрын

The original use of this word is what I thought of when he said it.

I live in Oregon and have almost my whole life, and only recently realized that "spendy" is a regional word! People say it all the time here.

@davidkuznetsov2011

Жыл бұрын

Flush down Kate Brown is also regional here.

@assmaster420

Жыл бұрын

@@davidkuznetsov2011 that’s what happens when the city(s) controls the state. We have the same problem just north of there.

@d4l3d

Жыл бұрын

That was the first word that gave me pause after moving to WA from IL. Nice to see it included.

@KyleDavis328

Жыл бұрын

From SoCal, I've heard of "spendy" and am pretty sure I've used it myself. I didn't realize it's supposed to be a PNW thing.

@weebeevillaging587

Жыл бұрын

@@davidkuznetsov2011 for methford

I'm waiting for Laurence to discover that the eastern parts of Washington and Oregon are arid semi-desert climates extremely different than the stereotypical rainy and grey Seattle. I seem to recall he's been to Idaho as well, and southern Idaho is very similar.

@YourNextStep1234

2 жыл бұрын

YESSSSSS!! Drives me nuts that the world seems to think the PNW all has Seattle weather

@mab6122

Жыл бұрын

Washington state features every type of climate of the continental US all in one place: desert, coastal, the only rainforest in the northern hemisphere… it’s the most amazing place on Earth.

@ilenestrong7471

Жыл бұрын

Some parts of eastern Washington and Oregon are not just semi-desert they are desert. Yakima averages 3 inches of rain annually.

@stever3658

Жыл бұрын

@MAB I believe that there is also a temperate rainforest in BC Canada.

@stever3658

Жыл бұрын

@Ilene Strong Finally, someone else who realizes that Seattle doesn't represent the entire state. Weatherwise or in other ways.

Having grown up in southern California, I've definitely heard gnarly used in a positive sense, but it's also used to describe quite the opposite, something that's revolting or disgusting.

@wisecatwillis1

2 жыл бұрын

I've never heard 'gnarly' used in a positive sense, only negative, or at least saying something was 'intense' as in: those waves were pretty gnarly. That band's music was too gnarly, we had to leave. The snow was gnarly today, we had to take the boards off and take a break. I grew up in Seattle and lived in LA half my life, as well as a bit in San Francisco

@TysonGiffordME

2 жыл бұрын

@@wisecatwillis1 in the case of music, I have only heard it as a positive... In the same way you might say "that riff is nasty" or "that breakdown was brutal"

@pXnTilde

2 жыл бұрын

gnarly means something is gnarled, which is like twisted in a disorganized way, like a gnarled root. It's easy to extrapolate that to waves, then to someone conquering a "gnarly" wave, then to the act itself being gnarly

@Chahlie

2 жыл бұрын

Up in BC, the old usage of gnarly (generally by loggers) was something twisted and tough. But now it's a positive thing especially to boarders, which confuses my old brain all to bits!

@UserName-ts3sp

2 жыл бұрын

ive heard gnarly before... but almost always in a negative sense. im from the midwest though

I'm a Californian and we tend to call the puma a mountain lion. At least, in Southern CA. As for 'cougar' we all know it's another term for mountain lion, the word is generally used for an older woman dating or looking to date a much younger man.

@anthonygreen7763

2 жыл бұрын

Same, in the Bay Area its almost always referred to as a mountain lion

@luelladiaz109

2 жыл бұрын

Northern California and up here have heard cougar as that or puma, mountain lion and panther. Also the slang for older lady after younger men. Men get called cradle robbers.

@Mirokuofnite

Жыл бұрын

Central Valley here. I always heard mountain lion when referring to the creature. But cougar occasionally popped up.

@wta1518

Жыл бұрын

Sacramento here, only ever called it a Mountain Lion.

@truckerkevthepaidtourist

Жыл бұрын

Yes the creative term on the word sugar mama Although there is no animal for the mail it's just sugar daddy LOL.

I have lived my entire life in Washington and a term that I have always used and thought everyone knew was "buck." When I was 22 I worked in a pet store and sometimes had to help customers figure out what size dog collar or harness would fit their dog, so I went next door to the craft store and bought a retractable seamstress measuring tape. When I showed to my coworkers, they asked me how much it was and I told them that it was 3 bucks. One of the managers wasn't originally from here and apparently had never heard that word used that way. I don't know why dollars are called bucks or where that use of the word came from, but my whole family uses it.

@theboyisnotright6312

Жыл бұрын

One dollar=one buck comes from the colonial fur trade. One buckskin was worth one dollar for trade purposes.

@kathygreer2097

Жыл бұрын

We use it here in the northeast too.

@birdermufagain

Жыл бұрын

I'm from Wisconsin. I've said buck for dollar all my life.

@katherinegarlock2249

11 ай бұрын

"Buck" has been around since at least the 1740s and refers to the animal. Buck skin was sought after and was used as a currency measure. When the dollar was first coined in 1792, people weren't trading buck skins, but the slang still stuck around. "Buck" is definitely not a regional thing.

@Ashley-xu1lk

11 ай бұрын

I've lived in CA my whole life and I'm aware that buck could mean dollars.

Native CA millennial and I have heard of (and used) all of the CA referenced words. I also thought that bear claws were pretty ubiquitous but maybe they started here. Also a lot of confusion for the word "dank" which has been a stoner term in use since the mid nineties at least. I always took it to mean dank (as in moist) so that your herbs are moist enough to be "dank" meaning they are that fresh. Also I have been known to combine many of the phrases into a sentence (which I still get teased about by my native NV partner). So you could viably say something like "Yo this June Gloom is hella dank right now, Imma post up with this bear claw before swooping on the cafe spot, yadadamean?" and Californian could probably understand you.

@Essy311

Жыл бұрын

Bear claws has definitely spread. I'm surprised that he hasn't heard it before living in Indiana and Chicago because I grew up in Indiana, and it's very common there. I recently lived in the SF area for 5 years, and hadn't heard some of these. Yadadamean? Nope. But what I heard a TON was the word structure. Play structure, parking structure. My brother live in Seattle for a while and apparently they say it there, too, but I haven't heard it used like that other places. I've always used parking garage and playground (even to talk about the actual play equipment as a whole).

@JenevieveDeFer

Жыл бұрын

@@Essy311 I have lived in the SF Bay Area for 56 years and have never heart Yadadamean.

@christopherfittro1900

Жыл бұрын

Same, been in the Bay area for decades (not 56 years, but a while) and never heard yadadamean.

@u140550

Жыл бұрын

i know we use this slang, but man its been a while since i've seen someone use it all in a sentence. thank you for representing us!!!

@imChauy

Жыл бұрын

@@Essy311 I was confused by yadadamean too, but then I realized that my friend group does say "you know what I mean" a LOT, and often very quickly too. Which, because of our tendency to pronounce "t" sounds as "d," can actually kind of sound like yadadamean lol

In my area of California gnarly has a somewhat negative connotation. Someone could say "I saw a gnarly car wreck today" or "look at this gnarly gash on my leg". We typically use it for things so bad you can't look away.

@Author.Noelle.Alexandria

2 жыл бұрын

It's in the inflection. Can be good, can mean bad, can mean weird. It's like Dude. :D

@bobatron2639

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah there is definitely an awe attached to it. Like a gnarly wave isn't a totally good wave, it's a wave that is rough and hard to ride but probably really big.

@ZakhadWOW

2 жыл бұрын

gnarly is a form of intensifier as well, usually meaning extreme or severe, so it can be used in both positive and negative situations

@kylegilmore3810

2 жыл бұрын

@Apsoy Pike Have you seen footage of surgeries, especially those regarding bones? lol I'd say power tools and hammers are pretty gnarly

@isweartofuckinggod

2 жыл бұрын

I think we're from the same "area" of California because that was my thought exactly.

I'm just so impressed that Laurence pronounced Oregon correctly.

@extofer

2 жыл бұрын

He gets more points than most people living on the east coast that almost willfully pronounce it wrong.

@tahoemike5828

2 жыл бұрын

I believe he has been instructed in previous videos. I think he did a video about it. I think he has even learned not to put an "Ah" in the middle of Nevada, which he gets extra credit for given his English accent.

@pXnTilde

2 жыл бұрын

Eh, the first O was a bit more Ah than Oh, but definitely he did better than most people in the US

@extofer

2 жыл бұрын

@@pXnTilde I think that's more owed to his accent than pronunciation. as long as he didn't say and put emphasis on "GONE" at the end we should be happy.

@JoeHamelin

5 ай бұрын

@@tahoemike5828 Orygun

I think when it comes to the west coast you really need to separate California from the Pacific Northwest, there isn't as much sharing of words as you would expect. Also in the Northwest, or at least in Washington a fair number of Canadian words and phrases sneak in, maybe because we get Canadian tv (I've watched around 99% of the Olympics on CBC because of their superior round the clock coverage).

@kitcutting

Жыл бұрын

Late reply, but I agree. Even here in California we distinguish northern slang from our southern half. As someone who has spent a good amount of time living in both halves of California, SF slang is more restrictive than LA slang. I even had a friend come in from the PNW when I was living near LA (she was from near Bellevue) and she underwent a slight culture shock when we toured downtown LA

@RyukyuStyle

10 ай бұрын

I can assure you that the majority of cali words are in the seattle-tacoma area. Definitely don't have canadian things lol.

@solracer66

10 ай бұрын

@@RyukyuStyle Only because there are too many Californians moving up here!

@josephsilva9403

6 ай бұрын

@@solracer66 just like the east moving out west crazy right lol

@Myrtlecrack

3 ай бұрын

As a Ex-Californian with strong ties still there, I disagree, there is lots of overlap in accent and vocabulary.

I'm a born and raised Oregonian. I've mostly heard the term Sunbreak by meteorologists on the news, but I hear potato bug, spendy, and cougar frequently. I mostly hear gnarly in reference to really nasty, gag-worthy wounds. I've not heard the term Duff ever.

Animal Cougar = Mountain Lion. In society, it's a woman who's about 10+ years older than her male lover.

@EricaGamet

2 жыл бұрын

Ahem... or female lover. Being "on the prowl" for a younger person is the key.

@mikep8080

2 жыл бұрын

Based on a woman's age, this scale classifies women (who prey on younger men for their sexual appetite) as felines. The scale is as follows: Age 0-12: Housecat Age 13-17: Bobcat Age 18-21: Wildcat Age 22-29: Lynx Age 30-39: Puma Age 40-49: Cougar Age 50-59: Jaguar Age 60-68: Panther Age 69: Pussycat Age 70-79: Cheetah Age 80-89: Leopard Age 90-99: Tiger Age 100+: Lion

@alanjameson8664

2 жыл бұрын

I think the social meaning must be a recent neologism. I am unfamiliar with it, and definitely never heard it when I was young. (Currently 75.) Or maybe I just kept good company.

@EricaGamet

2 жыл бұрын

@@alanjameson8664 The term has been around for a good 25 years at least. I learned it in my early 20s or so. (54 here)

That “Potato Bug” is actually a Roly-Poly. Or a Pill bug. So much fun to play with!

@Lisared023

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah! I heard them called pill bugs. But, not as often as potato bugs. It was always fun to watch the curl up when you touched them. Their backs would look like metal slabs side by side. Looked very protective!! Lol

@jeffking4176

2 жыл бұрын

Roly poly is what I remember, too , in Missouri. 📻🙂

@tinnagigja3723

2 жыл бұрын

His name is Uncle Carl. If anyone gets that reference, I will eat a bug.

@aprilrich807

2 жыл бұрын

Also referred to as a sow bug. I don’t know how they get confused with the horrendous potato bug!!

@davidbrick6325

2 жыл бұрын

I grew up in Washington state calling them potato bugs.

As an Oregonian, Duff is definitely not used widely. I've gone camping once a month my whole life and never heard duff used like that. That said the rest of the PNW words are used very commonly. The Californian words haven't made it up here though. Very different cultures.

@GH-oi2jf

2 жыл бұрын

I’m an Oregonian and I never heard it. It isn’t a local term used casually, it’s a technical term used by foresters. It isn’t just the loose stuff on the surface, but a dense layer of organic matter built up over time. This is jargon, not slang.

@DaRozeman

2 жыл бұрын

Having grown up in Washington, I have never heard Duff as anything other than the beer in the Simpsons or in the Redwall books referring to "Skilly and Duff", a type of food.

@stevenzeeck955

2 жыл бұрын

Guess it's more of a forestry term. Sometimes work finds me deep in the woods trying to set up a tri-pod but that fine needle floor litter can be feet thick and like walking on a sponge.

@justjane1639

2 жыл бұрын

@@DaRozeman Or the guy who makes cakes on TV.

@roxannwatson8896

2 жыл бұрын

@@DaRozeman Have you heard "get off your duff..." As usage of duff?

Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, I never thought of "hella" as anything unusual. That is until I moved to San Diego as the word wasn't used here at that time though it is now. As far as Cougar goes, I think that's more common in Washington and Oregon. In California, the preferred name is actually Mountain Lion. News reports and state agencies use Mountain Lion and it appears on any official signs warning they may be in an area.

I lived on the Oregon coast for a year where "spendy" was the equivalent of "pricey". But if you think about it, it flips the responsibility. If something is pricey, the other guy is being greedy. If something is spendy but you buy it anyway, it's on you bud.

@cloudsn

2 жыл бұрын

I've lived in Washington state my whole life and had no idea the word spendy was a West coast thing. We don't say it all the time, but enough that the meaning is commonly known.

@abbylarkspur

2 жыл бұрын

We say it in Minnesota too

@GreatBigRanz

2 жыл бұрын

during the winter Newport and Lincoln City are dank.

I grew up in California a long time ago and I was terrified of potato bugs. They were not the little pillbug or roly poly. They were awful, big nasty looking things. It was only after I moved to Idaho that I found out what a real potato bug was. Also not a pillbug. And I found out that what I had always called a potato bug was actually a Jerusalem cricket. They generally measure in at 2 inches, with a freakish big head. The Spanish speakers would call them Nino de la Tierra " child of the Earth." And they were called " the old bald man" by some Native American tribes. You should look up Jerusalem cricket....

@Dahnlor

2 жыл бұрын

I also grew up in California and "potato bug" immediately made me think of the Jerusalem cricket. Every time this comes up during my adult life I still need to be reminded of their more-correct name. Pillbugs were also "sowbugs".

@pgray5223

2 жыл бұрын

@@Dahnlor Some of the Spanish speakers would call them Devil's Children, too. Did they in your area? Yeah, the pillbugs were never potato bugs, but they had several other names including sowbugs.

@invaderliz

2 жыл бұрын

In the PNW, we call the wood louse (rolly-poly bug) a potato bug. I never heard of or saw a Jerusalem cricket until I moved to CA, where people told me it was a “potato bug”.

@PJ818

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah. In So. Cal I don't think we really typically call pill bugs potato bugs. I def. think of the Jerusalem cricket as potato bugs. Looking it up, Jerusalem crickets and wetas in New Zealand belong to the same larger superfamily of insects.

@IanOrmistonMusic

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! In California I’ve only ever heard potato bug used for Jerusalem crickets.

Native Californian here (grew up in LA but have lived in SF for 22 years), I’ve never heard of a potato bug either. “NoHo” is only really known by LA locals. “June Gloom” is only really used to refer to June in Southern California. What you were witnessing in SF is not just June, it’s the fog that happens in San Francisco pretty much any time of the year but especially in the Summer months (“Fogust”). And even then, it’s often just something that happens in SF and not even the entire Bay Area. And I’ve only ever referred to that cat as a mountain lion.

@reneed.1648

Жыл бұрын

Yeah never heard potato bug. That’s a “Rollie Pollie” which is an admittedly weirder name but it is descriptive given how they roll up into little balls.

@shasta_le_bab

Жыл бұрын

@@reneed.1648 potato bugs are different and a lot bigger, i have no idea why they used that bug (roly poly/pill bug) as an example. they are beetles and they have tan bodies that are striped usually. also a california resident

@Excalion88

6 ай бұрын

​@@shasta_le_bab as a Pacific Northwesterner, the video is spot on. We call the wood louse' a 'potato bug'

@Kerberlos

4 ай бұрын

@@shasta_le_bab Yeah, what I know as a 'Potato Bug' is apparently called a 'Jerusalem cricket' and what was shown, as you said, is a 'roly poly/pill bug'. Also a California resident

@TheGuindo

4 ай бұрын

thanks for mentioning that june gloom is from socal, i've never heard it before and i was baffled as to what area that one was from. in the part of norcal i grew up in, the idea of having gloomy weather in june is unthinkable.

potato bug in spanish is "el niño de la tierra" or child of the earth. I'm also glad that other people are mentioning both definitions of "cougar", in my part of the West Coast, we call the animal a Mountain Lion more often than not, so it was kind of confusing.

I've lived in California all of my 64 years, and some of these words are new to me.

@marktracy1721

2 жыл бұрын

Most of these are new to me I was surprised that most people dont know the true meaning of cougar

@luelladiaz109

2 жыл бұрын

Same here 72 years and some very new and some used differently like duff meaning you rear end. Swoop as in swoop in and grab it first.

@thehapagirl92

6 күн бұрын

A lot of these terms are not something older people your age would know. I’m 32 and while I know these words there is some slang I don’t know and I’m a young millennial who has lived here my whole life

Duff is a forestry term. It’s used extensively in the forestry and wildland fire industries. As in “Make a fire line; you need to rake off the duff.” As a former Forest Service employee, it was one I picked up. Duff is very important in wildfire prone areas because it’s the first stuff to catch and it can burn like crazy if it’s dry. That’s why people out west keep their yards well raked, or hose down their lawns if a fire is coming. Wet duff won’t burn.

@alindasue

2 жыл бұрын

Here in Washington, I have not heard "duff" widely used except from naturalists, forest rangers, and mountaineers. I knew the word because I come from a family of mountaineers.

@bradleywalker8468

2 жыл бұрын

In 2015 there was a teen comedy called "The DUFF," which stood for "Designated Ugly Fat Friend." (This being the movies, the "ugly" girl is very pretty and not really fat.) It's on Netflix.

@andyfletcher3561

2 жыл бұрын

@@bradleywalker8468 And that's most likely what was meant because how many call dead leaves on the ground "duff".

@y_fam_goeglyd

2 жыл бұрын

In the UK it means a failure, even "rank" (really rough). "It was a duff beer" - the beer wasn't a nice one to drink.

@christinestockman7042

2 жыл бұрын

We, just regular people, used forest duff in the northeast. Also we ate bear claws.

Many California words are not used in the NW. Some of those words are even familiar to me. There are similarities between the west coast's politics but culture is a different thing. In the NW we have our own words that are unique. Many of these words are ones used by younger people, who have many slang terms not familiar to older people.

Duff is basically nature's mulch. It protects and enriches the soil underneath it. It could have been so many other things, though. Even as a 4th gen Californian and daughter of a member of the U.S. Forest Service, I didn't know what it meant in the context of this video until you defined it. Perhaps that is because I always assumed it was universally used that way by anyone who had any reason to talk about duff. I don't imagine it's used much by those who aren't involved in protecting the ecology of the forests.

When I was little growing up in California we called those little bugs, pill bugs because they would curl up into a little ball or pill when they were scared.

@fermisparadox01

2 жыл бұрын

We called them rolie polies

@arikwolf3777

2 жыл бұрын

Growing up in Ohio, we called them Pill Bugs too, for the same reason as well. However, I have heard them called Rolly Pollies. Never heard of them being called Potato Bugs, until now.

@briankirchhoefer

2 жыл бұрын

@@fermisparadox01 we did too in southern Illinois

@valeriemerrill601

2 жыл бұрын

What we call Potato bugs in California are not what was shown in the video (those were rollie pollies). Potato bugs are 2-3 inches long and have big heads burrow in the dirt. Some people call them Jerusalem Crickets.

@pXnTilde

2 жыл бұрын

This is literally the first time I've understood why people call them pill bugs. I've always envisioned a generic "pill" to be an oblong shape, not a round one so to me they look less like "pills" when they're rolled up :P

Lawrence you could do a years worth of material just on Kentucky, and appalachia and the relationship to Britain... LOL

When I was living in La Jolla, May Gray and June Gloom were very real. Go a few miles from the coast, and it is not as pronounced. But, ironically, in that super-expensive area with the popular beaches, it is gray and gloomy practically non-stop through what are two of the nicest months almost everywhere else.

@Kayin2626

2 жыл бұрын

I grew up in Santa Monica (in the late 80s/early 90’s before it was super ritzy, just average middle class people). We were so close to Venice Beach that we had June Gloom too. And the fog would roll in, even during the spring and summer nights and it would get cold as soon as the sun went down.

@Eric__J

2 жыл бұрын

In San Diego, May Grey and June Gloom affects all the lower-lying area west of the first mountain range to roughly 600' of elevation every day. It usually burns off by noon down to about 400'. There are some lower inland areas that rarely get it, like El Cajon, Santee, and Escondido.

@RexFuturi

2 жыл бұрын

@@Eric__J I lived in SD for 15 years. I don't think I ever noticed May Gray or June Gloom when I lived near Sports Arena, but that was fairly long ago. I lived in City Heights for a while, and there was never anything like an actual gloom. It was only the 2 years I lived in La Jolla that I experienced the Gray and Gloom. And it was stark. Cool, wet fog that hung around practically all month.

@teamcougars

Жыл бұрын

And June Gloom 😮

@brandonrodgers2479

Жыл бұрын

I absolutely love La Jolla. Apart from the shear amount of people and houses its a paradise!

In the Pacific Northwest, I've never heard the phrase "June Gloom", however, "June-uary" is what we call that weather pattern, as it's essentially January weather in the month of June. Edit: I've been informed below that "June Gloom" may or may not be similar to June-uary

@dansanger5340

2 жыл бұрын

June Gloom I thought was California coastal fog.

@hiddenagenda4910

2 жыл бұрын

Actually it's just an overcast morning in late May, June

@jjcc2221

2 жыл бұрын

We have June-uary in BC as well

@SelanneFan8

2 жыл бұрын

May Gray and June Gloom are CA based lol

@annehersey9895

2 жыл бұрын

June Gloom is definitely a San Diego word as May, June and half of July are totally foggy until about 5 pm. We therefore, also have May Gray!

A lot of those were Californian words. Washington and Oregon has their own unique set of words that are way different. We can kind of tell who's one of us by the way they talk.

@wyattsunkel1048

Жыл бұрын

Being Washingtonian, I was disappointed

I've seen Bearclaws in bakeries in Minnesota. Probably elsewhere too. They are usually shaped more like a bear's foot than the one you showed.

@kateburk2168

2 жыл бұрын

Also seen them in Fl

@GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou

2 жыл бұрын

Bear Claws have definitely made it around North America within the past century and are not a regional exclusive product these days. Pretty much any donut shop will have them for sale. Of course, many donut shops that most people are familiar with happen to be national chains as well.

@soniashapiro4827

2 жыл бұрын

In Canada it's sometimes called a beaver tail

West coast life-long dweller here, some of these words are really familiar! Like bear claw, hella, and potato bug for sure. I personally use spendy lol. Gnarly seems like outdated lingo. This is outdated now, but when I was in high school ten years ago we used the word epic instead. EVERYTHING was epic. I have never heard of duff and I've lived in California and Oregon my whole life haha.

I'm from the Seattle area and I've never heard anyone refer to leaves and ground debris as "Duff." The other PNW words and phrases were spot on. Spendy is fun to use in place of expensive in casual conversations.

"Cougar" as in the cat isn't slang; it's just that the same cat has more than one name. "Cougar" meaning older woman hunting younger men for sexytimes is actual slang.

@TheBLGL

2 жыл бұрын

That’s why I was confused! I didn’t think it was slang, I use that term and I’ve never lived in the PNW.

@TheBLGL

2 жыл бұрын

I meant for a mountain lion. I don’t talk about cougars too much unless I watch “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” but know what they are.

@boobah5643

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheBLGL I spent that whole section waiting for Lawrence to drop the bit. Then he didn't. Then again, it's worth pointing out that his thumbnail features that word with the West Coast states highlighted, so maybe he's just playing us for engagement metrics. In which case, well played.

@Mokiefraggle

2 жыл бұрын

To be fair, much of what was being discussed in the video _was_ slang, but the intent wasn't _just_ to examine slang. It's just looking at specifically West Coast American localized words, and what they mean/how they are used. After all, if you're from Florida, "cougar" doesn't typically mean the cat. You'd more likely be calling it a Florida panther.

@Blondie42

2 жыл бұрын

Until Terry Fator debuted his puppet Vicky the Cougar, on AGT a few years back, I had never hear that word being use for anything other than the cat.

Mountain lion is what we called them when I lived in California

Duff is also a word specific in Wildland fire fighting or forest service because it specifically address the dead leaf and needle layer that hasn't rotted to mineral soil. It's particularly difficult to put out when on fire because its like a thick sponge that can smolder for days.

I grew up near San Francisco and I remember June Gloom. It ties into the old Mark Twain quote that was something like “the coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco “

I grew up in British Columbia, and we speak the same as the rest of Cascadia (Oregonand Washington), but with some specific Canadianisms and pronunciations. We call an elephant ear a beaver tail. But we definitely call them potato bugs, cougars, and we say pop, like they do in Washington.

@alanjameson8664

2 жыл бұрын

I am also a native Cascadian, albeit from the southern reaches [Eel River drainage, later coastal Mendocino County, all in the range of the Douglas Fir]. I wondered about pop, as in the carbonated beverages, and am gratified to learn my native word for it is common farther north. Thanks!

@ashleydanielson3222

2 жыл бұрын

We say soda in Washington.

@raynemichelle2996

2 жыл бұрын

@@ashleydanielson3222 Washington state? I was born in Washington state. Everyone I know says pop. My entire (paternal side of the) family says pop and they have grown up in Puyallup for generations.

@stevenwagner983

2 жыл бұрын

@@raynemichelle2996 seattle native as a kid and teen used pop but as got older switched to soda,

@raynemichelle2996

2 жыл бұрын

@@stevenwagner983 Yeah, I used to live in Utah for 2 years as a teen and they beat the pop out of me, even though I live in Canada and literally no one says soda here, I still sometimes say it. Or I say soda pop and people really look at me like I'm from another time.

"I think I did pretty good on that. Don't get me wrong, I did dreadfully" Mr. Brown, you have a lovely way with words

"I don't know many Cougars in Chicago", LMAO

I've heard "post up" as a basketball term. It refers to an offensive player establishing a position below the foul line. I didn't know it was in common use with another meaning.

@mattnsac

2 жыл бұрын

Thats where it comes from lol. When you post up, you stay in place. Perfect usage of two of his words would be like Post up at your girls and Ill swoop you up in a few

@pyrovania

Жыл бұрын

I thought it meant publishing something on the internet.

@sassanada

Жыл бұрын

I would think that this term dates back to more cowboy, old west days - as in, tying your horse up at a hitching post.

Lived in both WA and OR for combined 25 years and one regional term I love is "Skookum".

I was born in SW Washington in '67 and raised here and in NW Oregon. I've never heard most of the California terms. Though "gnarly" made it up here in the '80s I only heard "hella" when my brother married my sister-in-law almost 20 years ago - she's a SoCal transplant. I've never heard anyone say "duff." I've heard "forest litter" or just "(dry) leaves" or "needles." There's also a lot of words particular to the Pacific Northwest and BC that come from the old trade language known as "Chinook Jargon" or simply "the Jargon." Words like "potlatch" and "skookum." You might want to look that up.

@pXnTilde

2 жыл бұрын

Growing up in the 90s in PDX I've always been aware of hella (or heckin for children) and still hear it to this day. Duff I've understood to mean forest topsoil, but I wouldn't say it's an every-day speech word; probably just relevant to very backwoods people and hunters

@glcglc123

2 жыл бұрын

I was born in the Willamette valley and live in Central Oregon. Have always used the term Duff for forest floor litter, perhaps more commonly used in Coniferous forests. I asked my wife what she called the forest floor litter her immediate response was Duff. Of Course I'm over 70 and have spent a major portion of my life in and around the forests

@A2nthop

2 жыл бұрын

The PNW, perpetually annoyed at being tied into a unwilling marriage with California.

@jackgilchrist

2 жыл бұрын

@@glcglc123 Strange. I've spent all my life in the woods too, though I'm only mid-50s and so not quite the old timer you are. Don't quite remember hearing the word, though it seems vaguely familiar the more I think of it. Maybe I have heard it and just forgot. Probably not a word that comes up in conversation very often unless you are a hunter, and I was fishing and other stuff a lot more often than hunting.

@michaelm.1947

2 жыл бұрын

@@A2nthop "The PNW, perpetually annoyed at being tied into a unwilling marriage with California." I remember 30 years ago when people were complaining about Californians coming up and buying up all the good property, making places crowded, etc. Thirty years on, not much has changed, eh. :)

I grew up in rural Northern California in the mountains and mountain lion was what we called a cougar. Also, the photo you showed for potato bug we called a roly-poly. What we called a potato bug looks like a mutant cricket and apparently is also known as a Jerusalem cricket.

I did indeed grow up (in California) with "potato bug" meaning the insect you pictured (I guess the official name is "woodlouse", they're like pill bugs, but aren't able to fully roll into a ball). However, there are apparently many other people who use the term "potato bug" to refer to Jerusalem crickets, which are very much not the same thing at all, leading to some confusing miscommunications on occasion.. I'm pretty sure NoHo is very much only an LA-area thing. Nobody outside of that area (even on the rest of the west coast) ever uses that term, AFAIK. And I've lived in the SF bay area pretty much my entire life (and I'm not that young) and I've never even once heard anyone say "yadadamean". I think that's just someone pulling your leg...

@JonathanLedbetter

4 ай бұрын

Oregonian here. Growing up, the bugs Laurence showed were indeed called "potato bugs" here. An episode of the Simpsons mentioned them, so I just assumed the name was more widespread.

I’ve lived in CA my whole life and I’ve never said the words duff, or yadadamean, a potato bug is definitely different than a Roley poley and a cougar means what everyone else said.

@ZippityDont

2 жыл бұрын

Same here, but I have heard yahmean

@kaybouie1972

2 жыл бұрын

I live in OAKLAND and we say'd it all the time, plus its' in most of the late 80's, early 90's Rap Music primarily bay area base artist: Tell Me When to Go E-40 or Get Stupid by Mac Dre.

@will2993

2 жыл бұрын

Duff and potato bug are Pacific Northwest terms. I’ve heard them many many times

@ZippityDont

2 жыл бұрын

@@will2993 I’m sure you have but that doesn’t necessarily make them of NW origin. Potato bugs were plentiful in So Cal were I grew up. Duff is used by foresters everywhere. It is not a slang or regional term.

@reginafromrio

2 жыл бұрын

Same!

June Gloom is particularly used in San Diego.

@fogcat5

2 жыл бұрын

related to May Gray and No Sky July here

@candygram4435

2 жыл бұрын

No sun until afternoon in north orange county

Gnarly. Is a word that originated in the California "Valley" of L.A., is no longer used, but was surfer/skater lingo from the 1980's.

My favorite regional word is the term for the cover you put on the back of your pickup truck to make it more like a van. In the northwest we call that a "canopy" but elsewhere it's called a "cap", "topper" or "shell" and usually the other terms are completely unknown outside of each region. Heck there may be more terms then these, those are just the ones I've been exposed to in my travels.

June gloom is in wide use in San Diego. It seems to be a weather phenomena that is very coastal. A few miles in from the Ocean and you don't really experience it.

@elultimo102

2 жыл бұрын

June Gloom happens the month after "May Gray." (25 years in San Diego, most of the time watching John Coleman's weathercasts).

@gemoftheocean

2 жыл бұрын

Whole phrase is May Gray, June Gloom

@gordoofdoom

2 жыл бұрын

@@elultimo102 I am wondering if May Gray June Gloom is specifically a San Diego thing. I don't remember it when I lived in the Bay Area. I don't think my wife who grew up in LA used it before she moved to San Diego.

@veo_

2 жыл бұрын

@@gordoofdoom I've lived in every major city on the west coast and it's a LA Basin -> OC -> SD thing only. SF gets gloomy year-round. Meteorologically June Gloom is kind of the reverse of the Santa Ana Winds.

@veo_

2 жыл бұрын

@@gemoftheocean What about "no- sky july"? :)

Yup, here in 'The Bay', "hella" does mean "very"...as in..."It's hella (very) hot in here". It also means "a lot of"...as in..."I bought hella (a lot of) groceries today". Edit: Also, "hella" is derived from "hell", obviously, and can be made more PG (or G?) rated by saying "hekka" instead. Seriously, we say that too 😆

@Birdbike719

2 жыл бұрын

"Hell of a lot of"

“Post up” can mean more generally to settle in for a temporary period. I hear a lot of people use it when explaining where they might work for a period of time, perhaps in a cafe for a few hours. Imagine someone setting out their laptop, notepad, paperwork, books, etc. and getting comfortable. This is from a Bay Area perspective.

@gben7084

Жыл бұрын

also in Basketball to stand still to block

@spectre8522

Жыл бұрын

@@gben7084 Yes that was what I was thinking

@flabbylips

Жыл бұрын

Think of it like a fence post. So if you "post up" you are holding your position.

I really want to see your wife's reactions to some of your guesses 😆 they are hilarious

In San Diego, 'June Gloom' pertains to the marine layer off the coast that causes the 'gloom' but it's usually gone by 12 noon -- in May, it's called 'May Gray' but no complaints from me...just as long as the sun ☀️ eventually comes out. It was in the 80's today... sunny with nary any gloom in sight. 🌞 Love all your gnarly videos, dude! 🏄‍♀️

@hoodmistressreloaded

2 жыл бұрын

Same in Los Angeles; we have "May Grey" and "June Gloom". And then there's "July Fry"

@justmeannie1956

2 жыл бұрын

@@hoodmistressreloaded "July Fry"? That's a new one for me but it certainly applies to SoCal's hottest month, indeed!

@WendellSexson

2 жыл бұрын

Some years either September or October are hotter. It depends.

@WendellSexson

2 жыл бұрын

Mid 80s today in Long Beach, too. I was not amused.

@justmeannie1956

2 жыл бұрын

@@WendellSexson Sometimes September is hotter than July especially when there's a Santa Ana but I think August is the most humid month of all. 80 degree weather doesn't amuse you? I'd rather have weather that's sunny and warm versus east coast weather where freezing your patootie off is the norm. To each his/her own, I always say, cuz soon enough we'll have the May Gray. HAPPY SUPER BOWL WEEKEND, Y'ALL! G🏈 BENGALS! 🐅 Sorry LA Rams fans -- I'm still a disgruntled SD Chargers fan. 🙁

I’ve been American all my life, and I thought that pumas, cougars, and panthers were all different animals.

@jeremyday9056

2 жыл бұрын

Dude, me too.

@QuadCloudNine

2 жыл бұрын

They can be. Panther is more of a general term for a few types of big cat, including jaguars, which are different than mountain lions.

@angiebee2225

2 жыл бұрын

Most panthers are a separate genus from puma/cougar, but the Florida Panther (not to be confused with the hockey team) is just a cougar, so there's that.

@Mokiefraggle

2 жыл бұрын

@@QuadCloudNine Not exactly. I think you're more thinking of "panthera," which is the genus for big cats within the family Felidae. A lion, for instance, is panthera leo, while panthera tigris is a tiger. "Panther" is a term often used to describe specifically melanistic variants of the jaguar and leopard: those of the species with a mutation that makes them produce too much melanin, coloring their coat a dark brown/black shade (these animals do still have spots, though. Just a subtle variation in shades of black-on-black). However, in that regard, it's just a nickname for that variant. It's not actually describing a species. "Panther" in regard to a mountain lion, is more of a regional variant. The "Florida panther," in particular, which had briefly been considered a subspecies of the puma concolor cougar (the North American subspecies, separate from p. c. concolor, the South American cougar), but has since been folded in with the North American subspecies. The name, like the rest of the cougar's names (currently there are 40 different terms for a cougar known), are regional variations, dialectical variations ("panther" and "painter" for example, likely came from dialectical shifts), and the like. Fun fact, despite being called a "panther," mountain lions are a completely individual genus from "panthera." They're not even a big cat, despite males reaching up to 220lbs. They're considered a small cat, alongside the cheetah, which is primarily indicated by the fact that neither of them can roar. A puma is capable of meowing, purring, and making basically the same vocalizations as a house cat, just on a much larger scale, but their larynx structure makes them physically incapable of roaring.

@stever3658

Жыл бұрын

@Mokiefraggle I know the cougar is classified among the "small" or purring cats. The scream that they are known for, apparently in some areas, they are called "screamers," isn't a form of roar, but is akin to the long wail that a house cat may make when it's trying to intimidate another cat. Or, the ear splitting screach that occurs when you when you accidentally step on your cat's tail.

Post up is definitely one I've heard beyond west coast. I've more often heard it as near military language. you post up for the night when you're camping in enemy territory. It's from taking guard positions.

Laurence, did you know that the cougar / puma / mountain lion is the largest cat that can purr? We see mountain lions in Kansas from time to time -- mostly not in the city but a couple of years ago, there was a video on the news from a woman who caught sight of a mountain lion walking by her window one early morning around 4 am or so. It was in a neighborhood that is near the river which there a lots of wooded areas. She said she probably wouldn't have ever seen it if she hadn't gotten up to get a drink of water.

I'm from Washington State and we have pretty much the same weather as England. Sunbreak definitely came from here in Seattle. California may have "June Gloom" but WA has "Junuary". We get a beautiful April-May and inevitably gray sky and rain most of June. When we got the crazy heat wave last year with over 100 degrees in June, it traumatized all of us. Dank started with marijuana. Good weed = dank weed. Sometimes, we use gnarly as the opposite of its meaning here. you might have a gnarly piece of wood, one with a ton of knots and twists and not easy to split. You might be in a gnarly car accident, with the metal all twisted up and it looks really bad from the outside.

@stever3658

Жыл бұрын

In Western Washington, it's said that summer doesn't begin until July 5th. In part due to Seattle's infamous rainy spring and a dose of June Gloom, which somehow wafts its way from California. Gnarly weather dude

My nephew teaches high school. One Monday he asked his class how their weekend was. One boy said his Scout troop had been out hiking and saw a cougar. Some girl thought he meant they saw "an old lady."

@michelleandino3301

Жыл бұрын

🤭😆

8:13 you don't know how much shock I expended just going through KZread and then suddenly there is my small towns library on screen

You are a hoot! You’ve got this funny comedic style where you make the odd pauses, almost like “stubbing” your tongue before you finish a phrase. I rather like that quirkiness.

That was not a potato bug. That was a pill bug or rollie pollie

@jeremygilbert7989

2 жыл бұрын

In Oregon growing up they were synonymous save for pill bug, never heard anyone call one that.

@orlock20

2 жыл бұрын

I call the pictured bug a sal bug and I was born and raised in California.

@leeann4743

2 жыл бұрын

I grew up in Oregon and we called them potato bugs or pill bugs. I never heard rollie pollie until I lived in the midwest :)

@Author.Noelle.Alexandria

2 жыл бұрын

@@leeann4743 I've never heard potato bug here. Always roly polies or pill bugs. I asked my daughter, and she said it's a poly poly. All she's ever known is Vancouver/Portland.

@exrobowidow1617

2 жыл бұрын

@@orlock20 As a kid, we called them pill bugs. Only when I was older did I hear the term sow bug.

Dank is already a word, which means an area which is dark and moist, like an old, unfurnished basement, or parts of an old home which doesn’t get aired out.

@johnbernstein7887

2 жыл бұрын

WRONG!

June Gloom, is a SoCal word. During June the air is warming up into the 90s but the ocean water is still very cold, causing fog. The fog lasts all day early in June but 'burns off' as the month progresses earlier and earlier in the day.

Thanks for doing this! It’s very entertaining and educational. I think we also might enjoy you asking midwesterners if they could identify or properly translate regional UK words! I’d love to see that. 🙏🏽

"Duff" also means you're derrière, as in, "Get off your duff and get back to work!" Then again, I'm from the East Coast, lol. Another hilarious offering - thanks so much, Lawrence!

@seantlewis376

2 жыл бұрын

55 years old, I've lived almost all my life on the West Coast, "Get off your duff!" is the only context I've ever heard it in. I did not know that the dictionary definition was "woodland detritus".

@jlt131

2 жыл бұрын

@@seantlewis376 i know it as both, up here in BC, but then again I did work in forestry for awhile back in my 20s.

@pbjman5809

2 жыл бұрын

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@jlt131

2 жыл бұрын

@@pbjman5809 did that make you feel better?

@pbjman5809

2 жыл бұрын

@@jlt131 yes

I grew up in Oregon & Washington… potato bug was the first word I learned for it. I heard “roly poly” from others but always said “potato bug” myself.

@sierraroseprzybyla3333

2 жыл бұрын

That’s not a potato bug… you learned the wrong term for the wrong bug.

@tb45g

2 жыл бұрын

Same here, PNW and it's always been a potato bug. I was horrified when I first saw pictures of what people elsewhere called a potato bug. I think over time it's changed to pillbug or rolly-poly due to a lot of transplants in the area who would get confused if you called it a potato bug. I guess it's one of those things like possum and opossum where they have the same name in other places but are completely different.

@ahtemmathehun3506

2 жыл бұрын

It's an Isreal Beetle in the rest of the world. Very ugly bug that ravages crops in Cali. They're gross looking too, pink and slimy looking and they bite too!

June Gloom is preceded by the May Gray. Generally extends about 5 mi in from the coast, then you hit the brilliant sunshine.

June Gloom. Always clouds up and rains mid-June when it should be warm and sunny. Although I experienced it for over thirty years. I never knew there was a word for it. There's also Summer in January. The middle two weeks of January (at least in the San Francisco Bay Area) get really warm and everyone is out in t-shirt and shorts.

@pyrovania

Жыл бұрын

It does that in Southern California too, but not this year.

Good list! There is nothing like a bear claw on a cold foggy morning in the woods with a hot cup of coffee. It's overall a Danish style pastry but sweeter, larger, sometimes with almond shavings on top and shaped like a bear paw so easy to tear apart and share... or eat eat it all before others ask you for a piece :) My favorite bear claw is at the awesome Schat's Bakery in Bishop CA, that town is just fun. I always stop there on a long 3 day drive from WA to southern CA.

@simonewoodwell7354

2 жыл бұрын

Lot's of Bear claws in Philadelphia, PA

@tiki_trash

2 жыл бұрын

They have sweet almond paste as a filling.

@PuppyMonsters

2 жыл бұрын

Schat's Bakery always had the best breads. Bishop had great shops like that, and Meadow Farms, a smokehouse which had dozens of different types of jerky. My question is, if 'bear claw' is a West Coast thing, what the heck do they call a bear claw anywhere else?

@PuppyMonsters

2 жыл бұрын

@@tiki_trash Bear Claws in Cali always had almond paste, but in Washington, they almost always have an apple filling.

@RoxieMarquez_marroxeli

2 жыл бұрын

Went to the Schat's Bakery in Mammoth, so freakin tasty!!!

Cougar is a (mostly) Pacific Northwest term for Mountain Lion (a term which is also used here). The term meaning an older women "hunting" for younger men came from the first meaning.

@margefoyle6796

2 жыл бұрын

In California we use cougar and mountain Lion interchangeably, though I think mountain lion is more common in the North and cougar more common in the LA area.

@ZippityDont

2 жыл бұрын

Those terms are used all over California.

@itzamia

2 жыл бұрын

My friends dad owned a sick ass Mercury Cougar in Florida.

Depending on how long the foggy weather lasts, there can be May Gray, June Gloom, No Sky July, Fogust, and Souptember. 😆

In reference to San Francisco and the "June Gloom", there is supposedly a famous quote from Mark Twain where he said : "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco!"

@treetopjones737

2 жыл бұрын

Don't get your hair done in SF during the Summer. Fog that runs right around your head.

Duff is used a lot when we talk about forest fire danger. "There was a lot of duff on the forest floor providing fuel for the fire."

@donaldcarey114

2 жыл бұрын

In Australia duff referred to flour baed foods like bread.

As a Californian, I've been eating "bear claws" all my life, but didn't realize they were specific to California. I thought they called them that everywhere. But even after living in or near the Bay Area for 30 years, I had never heard "dadadamean." And, like several people elsewhere in these comments, I thought a cougar was an "older" woman who likes to date much younger men, like 40 versus 20 or so. We already knew it was an animal!

@susanhopemason

2 жыл бұрын

I think they do call them that everywhere. I grew up in West Virginia, and had always heard of bear claws and knew that they are a type of pastry.

@pXnTilde

2 жыл бұрын

yadadamean is probably just black slang or lazy english (i.e., slurred words)

@spudmuffin8175

2 жыл бұрын

Yadadamean definitely Bay Area rap culture slang and is kinda old at this point. It’s in the song “Tell Me When to Go” by E-40.

@AtarahDerek

2 жыл бұрын

We have bear claws in Montana.

@cathleenrichards3841

2 жыл бұрын

I’m in New England and we have Bear Claws here too.

I am a native California girl. Quite a lot of these are not used in California at all, especially in Southern California. The Pacific Northwest is quite different in culture than CA. There is actually even a reasonable difference between Northern and Southern California. Either way, I very much enjoy your channel.

On a day with sunbreaks, just seeing that there is distant sunlight somewhere makes one feel better. One does not have to have the sun be visible at one's own location. One feels better knowing that yes the Sun does still exist.

Cougar: an older woman that is after younger men, mainly looking for one night stands.

That was not the potato bug I'm familiar with. That was a pill bug. A potato bug (aka Jerusalem cricket) is big and hideous and makes me want to run in the other direction when I see one. A pill bug, however, is small and kinda cute and will roll up into a ball if you touch it.

@elciniak2225

2 жыл бұрын

I was coming here to say this. My parents have a house in a more remote area and a “potato bug” somehow got into the wall and chewed a quarter sized hole in the plaster to get out. They’re not a cute little critter.

@pXnTilde

2 жыл бұрын

As someone from the PNW, I've never heard of anyone who doesn't understand a potato bug to be what was shown, and consider pill bug and rolly-polly to be synonyms.

@christineperez7562

2 жыл бұрын

@@elciniak2225 That is what a potato bug looks like to me.

@mintyrainbow6994

2 жыл бұрын

Potato bug = pill bug, where I grew up (Oregon and Washington).

@philipwilliams4388

2 жыл бұрын

I had to pick potato bugs at my grandparents in Eastern Washington. Whatever they where, not pill bugs

Love the series! Yadadamean has me laughing though. I have lived in the Bay Area for 25 years and I've never heard this ever.

When I was a little child, over half a century ago, my mom used to yell at me, "Get off your duff !! It's a sunny day today ! Either go outside to play or get busy washing the car !" She meant get off my rear end (I was usually watching TV on a Saturday morning. I loved "Mighty Mouse" and "Top Cat" Cartoons.) and get busy outside. Lol ! I have never heard "duff " used to mean forest floor litter such as leaves and pine needles that had fallen off the trees. We just said, "forest floor litter." Forest floor litter was considered dangerous to the forest as it could be highly flammable.

Rocky mountain region slang would make a great addition to this series

@stevenwagner983

2 жыл бұрын

Be test for me went to college in MT and have spent lots of time in CO, whole life in Seattle though

Thank you for pronouncing "Oregon" correctly. So many people get it wrong.

@cedarforest4621

2 жыл бұрын

word.

@Author.Noelle.Alexandria

2 жыл бұрын

He got it about 95% right, which is really good. People outside the PNW, even in Cali, will say "ore-eh-GONE" and it drives me up the damned wall.

@ksturnerncc1721

2 жыл бұрын

@@Author.Noelle.Alexandria My dad is from Oregon, and it drives him up the wall too. I guess I inherited a bit of that. :)

@carrynwelde1120

2 жыл бұрын

Or|eh-gun (Idk how to spell the ore part. Or eh gun... something like that)

@daisy_dreams

2 жыл бұрын

Yes!! I pre-cringed, as usual, knowing he was going to say Oregon and then once he said it correctly I let out a sigh of relief and smiled. :)

I don’t know about all of these terms being in wide usage, but certainly as a native to SoCal, NoHo and June gloom are pretty widely used. You’ll hear June gloom during weather forecasts in the news all the time here. The other one my husband thinks is funny (he grew up mostly along the gulf coast) is marine layer. When there’s fog rolling onshore, they always call it “the marine layer” on the news, and he thinks that’s odd. Lawrence, not sure if you’ve covered this before, but could you talk about how different places refer to their highways? In SoCal, we usually say “the #”, like “the 5”, or maybe “the 5 freeway.” All my in laws think the “the” is weird.

@Kayin2626

2 жыл бұрын

I get poked fun at relentlessly by my husband for my reference of freeways and highways. I grew up in California and live in Texas and married a Texan. So I would always use “the” in front of the numbers. I had to learn to say I-whatever when I was in Texas in order to not confuse people. And then when I go back to California to visit, I go back to “the”. My husband will say “so we’re taking I-5 South?” Nope, that’s doesn’t exist! Lol

@angiebee2225

2 жыл бұрын

I grew up in Whittier and had no idea what NoHo was. Clearly I was on the wrong side of the county. I did, however, know all about June Gloom, and even though I left CA in 2005, it still influences how I perceive hazy or foggy weather. It'll burn off. Marine layer is what causes June Gloom and doesn't necessarily involve fog - if a marine layer is rolling in, it's a pocket of cooler air moving inland. I am also married to a Texan but now live in Missouri, although I spent several years in NY state. I refer to major roads by whatever the locals use. Interstate 64 is "64" or "40" (because the old highway was a different number. Interstate 90 is "the Thruway". Interstate 5 is and always will be "the 5".

@kirstenlandon3043

2 жыл бұрын

You nailed this. I’ve never lived in SoCal (been in the Bay Area all my life) but I’ve spent a lot of time there and know very well that, when down south, you say “the 405,” or “the 5” or what have you. Up here, it’s just “5,” or “80,” etc. California has so many different “languages” and cultures-it’s truly like going to different countries without ever having to go outside our borders. Though I love leaving the US, too! ;)

@someonespadre

2 жыл бұрын

I grew up in Bakersfield, we never said the 5 or the 99 or the 58, that’s an L.A. basin habit. California…freeway The other 49 states…the interstate.

@jeanmm2996

Жыл бұрын

Oh good one, highways. And other traffic differences. In the northeast, we just call them their number, no "the". Or once in a while in a more rural area, might call it "the interstate, " but not that common. A busy and lengthy north- south highway here for much of its length is "5 & 10," when the routes 5 and 10 run together for the distance.

In Seattle and Portland, term "the mountain is out" relates to good weather, that allows you to see the top of either Mt. Rainier or Mt. Hood. Most of the time (especially in winter), clouds block the view of these very scenic mountains (which dominate the horizon).

I was expecting a different definition for cougar

@frandistabile4723

2 жыл бұрын

So was I, lol!

Today, I realized how many British KZreadrs admire Laurence! I watch a few British KZreadrs, I love them. I’m not as familiar with them as I am with Lost in the Pond. Kabir Considers is the only name I know, off hand, he’s great. There’s a young couple that have recently tried American snacks, who are cute. This guy, maybe H and Friends, or something like that. He says wow a lot and points LOL They all reference Laurence in their videos. Laurence is great! I love his sense of humor, his love for both Great Britain and America and the best part, I learn so much from him. Lost in the Pond is a great channel and it has even more meaning, coming from other Brits! Well done, Laurence, well done. 💯

⏩ San Diego here. *"May Gray"* and *"June Gloom"* are the chunks of gray weather we get in those months. As a kid, I recall June Gloom always seemed to tragically start the first day we were out of school for summer! Also, *So Cal* 🏄🌞🌴 is *VERY different* from No Cal, Oregon and Washington.

6:09 June Gloom is the gloomy and cloudy weather we have in June

This was one that had me guessing along with Laurence. I, a California native raised in the PNW, never heard "sunbreak" or "duff" and certainly not "yadadamean"

@anthonygreen7763

2 жыл бұрын

yadadamean is definitely bay area only

@Silverstar98121

2 жыл бұрын

You must have moved out of the PNW long time ago. Weather forecasters have been using the word "sunbreaks" since I moved here 32 years ago.

@ArtamStudio

2 жыл бұрын

Bay Area native, read and heard lots of ("hella") run-together words, many are in Carl Nolte's oft-misquoted 2/26/1984 _S.F. Chronicle_ column "How to Talk Like a San Franciscan;" but *never* heard "yadadamean."

@luelladiaz109

2 жыл бұрын

Duff is the only one of the 3 I heard but it was used to mean your rear. Get off your duff and rake the leaves. That type of use.

@pyrovania

2 жыл бұрын

I've heard "sucker hole" to describe a break in the PNW cloud cover, but not "sunbreak". Called a sucker hole because there is a sucker who thinks it's going to clear up when they see that hole.

We don't pronounce it (Puma) "Pew-ma"🚫 It's "Poo-ma"✅ 😉💕

@LindaC616

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Brits and Irish insist on putting an I in there!

Pop is common in Oregon and Washington where a lot of the rest of the world says soda. A few of those words were new to me, but I'm not as hip as I have aged.

Pacific Northwest native here. I've noticed that when I was little, everybody in my local area called that wild big cat a cougar, then for a few short years we called it a puma, but now everybody calls it a mountain lion for the past dozen or so years. I first heard of a potato bug when I was in my 30s. When I finally saw a picture, I knew exactly what it was. I've known it all my life as a rollypoley, and I still call it that. Related bonus trivia: What everybody here now calls a "june bug", I grew up calling a "skeeter-eater" even after learning that they don't actually consume mosquitos. In my mind without looking it up, "dank" means "saturated with moisture", but it also somehow gets more commonly used in my home town to describe an old mansion in a formerly very rich neighborhood that has gone bad and lost most of its value, so the owners remodeled their mansion's interior and converted it into an apartment building with several cheap apartments in it.

Dank: In Oregon and Washington, dank means cold, damp (not wet), dark atmosphere, where the air itself seems to be rotting. Can be outside or inside in a basement. This is an old definition. Apparently the young, possibly Southern Californians, have redefined it. My impression is that of a cold rain forest, damp but short of dripping, at about 50 degrees Fahrenheit. It's a terrible state of affairs when stoner slang supercedes ordinary usage.

@keriezy

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah it's a 420 thing. The meaning changed about 15 years ago.

@Perfectly_Cromulent351

2 жыл бұрын

It was used to describe top shelf weed because the good stuff is usually stickier, greener and looks like it’s wet while also smelling like a musky basement that has water damage. Eventually the term spread to anything that was good. I’ve mostly used it to describe tasty burritos.

@webbtrekker534

2 жыл бұрын

@@keriezy I don't remember that from the 60's or 70's. Good stuff was Panama Red or Acapulco Gold. Really good was called "Sneak" because you never saw it coming.

@wishingb5859

2 жыл бұрын

@@Perfectly_Cromulent351 So it is a pot term. Hard to imagine it meaning good in any other uses.

@Perfectly_Cromulent351

2 жыл бұрын

@@wishingb5859 yeah, stoner culture has always been popular in California (at least compared to other states) but it really took off around ‘05 and ‘06 when weed pretty much became legal bc anyone over the age of 18 could get a medical license. All you needed was $50 and a shady doctor.

In San Francisco, "June Gloom" often lasts until September, at least on the West Side. In August it's usually everywhere.

(jumping in before you read the definition from whatever source you've got) As a Bay Area native - until 1993 in the South and East Bay, since then in San Francisco proper - I was thrilled to see "hella" as the #1, as it originated in Oakland IIRC shortly after I moved away from there. And yes, it's exactly as you say, equivalent to a Bostonian's "wicked". It's a contraction of "hell of" as in "a hell of a lot". ETA: I've never hears "yadadamean" - must be recent, everyone I've ever heard says "yanowamsayin"

June Gloom is the grey clouds in June in California. No rain but the low ocean temperatures leads to cloud formation.